LVMH May Bid for Shoemaker Jimmy Choo, Sunday Times Reports

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA
is considering a bid for footwear company Jimmy Choo, the Sunday
Times reported.

The shoe brand, founded by Tamara Mellon, could be sold for
as much as 500 million pounds ($804 million), the newspaper
reported, without saying where it got its information. The
private equity company Towerbrook hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
and Morgan Stanley to sell Jimmy Choo, the paper said.